PAKISTAN has 116 prisons, including those in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), with an official capacity to house 66,625 inmates. However, these facilities currently have 108,643 ...

Social Democrats TD Gary Ganon has now raised concerns about more people being added to overcrowded prisons and the ...

DORSET prisons are overcrowded, according to latest figures, and short jail terms are set to be scrapped to fix the national issue.

Long-awaited review by former Tory justice secretary David Gauke says government must stop ‘overreliance’ on jail time to ...

BRITAIN’S dilapidated and overcrowded prisons are in meltdown. Violence behind bars is soaring and there will soon be nowhere to lock up newly convicted criminals. Yesterday we learned that a ...

Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system ...

Mountain rescue volunteer Paul Inch is heading home to Wales after a 'simple four-day job' turned into a nightmare in one of ...

With philosophy, people care about what I think. Nobody listens when you’ve been in prison. Everything you think is wrong, ...

With an occupancy rate of 226.2 per cent, Cyprus had the most overcrowded prisons among EU member states in 2023, according to data released by Eurostat on Monday. In 2023, 13 EU member states ...

According to the Howard League, the category B men’s prison is at 156%. Politicians say Trump has revoked their visas preventing them from travelling to US Nigel Farage’s £90bn tax cuts ...